The Berlin airlift begins.
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MILITARY AVIATION
Earth circumnavigating adventure – Pacific Skies 2024
On 27th June 2024, forty-nine aircraft and more than 1,800 military personnel from France, Germany and Spain set out on a journey around the Earth, codenamed Pacific Skies 2024. That unique and historic exercise is […]
AVIATION HISTORY
13 June 1944 – the first V-1 flying bomb reaches England
On 13th June 1944, the first V-1 flying bombs, launched within Operation Eisbär (English: polar bear), reached England. The German flying bomb, at first known as Fieseler Fi 103 but then officially designated Vergeltungswaffe 1 […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Lockheed C-121C Super Constellation
Lockheed C-121C Super Constellation, c/n 54-0156, HB-RSC (commonly known as the ´Star of Switzerland´) – rehearsal to 2015 edition of Sanicole International Airshow, Kleine-Brogel air base, September 2015. The Lockheed Constellation, usually nicknamed ´Connie´, is […]